Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us

Europe is weird.

You complain so much to the point that nationalism is becoming prevalent but when someone tries to force you to be independent you complain every way possible to not be independent? But then when you are dependent you complain about not being equivalent.

It doesn't work both ways.

I wonder if this was written via an American AI or a Chinese one?

>One of her colleagues, a thoughtful and senior policy officer whom she likes, implies during a lunch shortly after the Vance speeches that he thinks you probably don’t need vast data centres to make AI work, precisely because Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Donald Trump all stood on a stage to say you do. It is, Caroline thinks, a simplistic but understandable position: Brussels’ scepticism of Trump and the Silicon Valley elite runs deep. But she is worried that just because they say it’s sunny, that doesn’t mean it’s dark outside.

This is basically Reddit regarding AI (and everything else).

Europe - the place that produced Nokia, Palm, Skype - should have erected a Great Firewall in 2000's. Instead, it bought into the idea of an open internet and ended up getting assimilated into US tech eco-system. This seemed harmless at the time, but Trump 2.0 has exposed it as a catastrophic strategic mistake.

Not too late - perhaps EU will get through EU AI Act / GDPR and similar barricade of red tape?